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Posted by on May 5, 2009, 3:56 pm
On Tue, 5 May 2009 13:39:15 -0600, "Dawne Peterson"
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>"F.James Cripwell" wrote
>>> Unlike some people, I think watching the wind turbines turning on the
>>> hilltops is rather peaceful and lovely.
>>> Gill
>> Sorry to ba a wet blanket, Gill, but solar and wind will never be a good
>> source of energy until we learn to store the output. For solar water
>> heaters, this happens automatically, so these work. In Perth, Australia,
>> they have a wind powered water desalination plant; terrific. At Yulari,
>> also in Australia, they use huge banks of rechargeable batteries. But
>> until we learn how to store electricity, or it's equivalent, on a huge
>> scale, wind and solar are extremely expensive toys the Greenies are
>> playing with. Jim.
>There have been reports of some people living near wind farms experiencing
>health issues, although why this should be is not yet understood. Wind
>turbines are large new additions to the environment too.
>Dawne
Still, it's a step in developing something less destructive. Whether
there is global warming or not, the cookie has to crumble. They are
building wind farms out at sea, more expensive but out of the way.
They are also experimenting with roller-like things placed on the
ocean floor where the Fundy tides rushing in and out over them will
generate power.
There is to be a large wind farm built on the Tantramar marshes, far
from homes. Have to admit, the windmills fascinate me, I must have at
the very least 500 or so pics of the stupid things lol
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Posted by Dawne Peterson on May 5, 2009, 4:26 pm
<lucretiaborgia wrote
There have been reports of some people living near wind farms experiencing
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>>health issues, although why this should be is not yet understood. Wind
>>turbines are large new additions to the environment too.
>>Dawne
> Still, it's a step in developing something less destructive. Whether
> there is global warming or not, the cookie has to crumble. They are
> building wind farms out at sea, more expensive but out of the way.
> They are also experimenting with roller-like things placed on the
> ocean floor where the Fundy tides rushing in and out over them will
> generate power.
> There is to be a large wind farm built on the Tantramar marshes, far
> from homes. Have to admit, the windmills fascinate me, I must have at
> the very least 500 or so pics of the stupid things lol
There is certainly lots of potential for wind farms here on the prairies. I
also would like to see them developed, and we have lots of open space away
from people.
SaskPower was running an experimental project to convert waste from hog
operations to power--the former president loved to lead reporters into
asking him about "pig poop power".
dawne
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Posted by lucille on May 5, 2009, 5:10 pm
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> <lucretiaborgia wrote
> There have been reports of some people living near wind farms experiencing
>>>health issues, although why this should be is not yet understood. Wind
>>>turbines are large new additions to the environment too.
>>>Dawne
>> Still, it's a step in developing something less destructive. Whether
>> there is global warming or not, the cookie has to crumble. They are
>> building wind farms out at sea, more expensive but out of the way.
>> They are also experimenting with roller-like things placed on the
>> ocean floor where the Fundy tides rushing in and out over them will
>> generate power.
>> There is to be a large wind farm built on the Tantramar marshes, far
>> from homes. Have to admit, the windmills fascinate me, I must have at
>> the very least 500 or so pics of the stupid things lol
> There is certainly lots of potential for wind farms here on the prairies.
> I also would like to see them developed, and we have lots of open space
> away from people.
> SaskPower was running an experimental project to convert waste from hog
> operations to power--the former president loved to lead reporters into
> asking him about "pig poop power".
> dawne
>FP&L is in the process of hiring 1500 people to build a solar plant here.
>Sadly, they got over 4500 applications for the 1500 projected jobs. They
>are supposed to start the project some time this year and it will last at
>least 3 years.
Lucille
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Posted by NDJoan on May 6, 2009, 11:08 am
On May 5, 2:56=A0pm, lucretiabor...@florence.it wrote:
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> There is to be a large wind farm built on the Tantramar marshes, far
> from homes. =A0Have to admit, the windmills fascinate me, I must have at
> the very least 500 or so pics of the stupid things lol
There are already a number of them in ND. Although they're trying to
figure out how to cut down on the number of bird deaths from them.
You might be interested in the following site:
http://www.otpco.com/AboutCompany/WindLangdon.asp
Joan
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Posted by Fred on May 6, 2009, 4:43 pm
On May 5, 2:56 pm, lucretiabor...@florence.it wrote:
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> There is to be a large wind farm built on the Tantramar marshes, far
> from homes. Have to admit, the windmills fascinate me, I must have at
> the very least 500 or so pics of the stupid things lol
There are already a number of them in ND. Although they're trying to
figure out how to cut down on the number of bird deaths from them.
You might be interested in the following site:
http://www.otpco.com/AboutCompany/WindLangdon.asp
Joan
The constant woof, woof, woof of the blades is apparantly making some people
living close to them very sick.
Fred
http://www.stitchaway.com
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.
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>>> Unlike some people, I think watching the wind turbines turning on the
>>> hilltops is rather peaceful and lovely.
>>> Gill
>> Sorry to ba a wet blanket, Gill, but solar and wind will never be a good
>> source of energy until we learn to store the output. For solar water
>> heaters, this happens automatically, so these work. In Perth, Australia,
>> they have a wind powered water desalination plant; terrific. At Yulari,
>> also in Australia, they use huge banks of rechargeable batteries. But
>> until we learn how to store electricity, or it's equivalent, on a huge
>> scale, wind and solar are extremely expensive toys the Greenies are
>> playing with. Jim.
>There have been reports of some people living near wind farms experiencing
>health issues, although why this should be is not yet understood. Wind
>turbines are large new additions to the environment too.
>Dawne